Squirrels

[Oldshooter]

My Grandmother that lives in Tx takes a 3/4" sheet of ply wood and glues peanuts to it on the porch.  Every so often she will look around the corner and grap her BT99 and let fly with a 1 Oz load.
The only people that get upset are the golfers she scars on the 5th hole just below her house.  
So if you are ever on the Gen Dynamics Golf course and on hole 5 it is just my Grandmother.  Say Hello.

Thanks, that made my day cause i can just see em ducking when she lets fly! 

[JBlk]

I had some squirrels chew a hole in the eves of my porch roof.The neighbor told me to get some moth balls and throw in the hole and that would get rid of them.I did what he said, and after few days I boarded up the hole.Well apparently one of the squirrels was still in there because he chewed a new hole in a different spot to get out.After that squirrel got out I didn't have any futher problems.The old time farmers would put a open can of turpentine with their seed corn to keep the rats and mice out of it.That might work but could present a fire hazard.

[S.S.]

Cats will not eat the D-Con but they will pounce on and eat a slowly dying squirrel.
They can ingest the poison second hand. Rat traps mounted to trees and baited with p-nut
butter will do the job

[squirrellluck]

Catch 'em Kill 'em and eat the evidence

[S.S.]

Catch 'em Kill 'em and eat the evidence

Didn't Hanibal Lecter do that?

[theoldarcher]

Speaking of squirrels: I have cleaned up the yard of corn cobs, from across the county road, in my yard several times.  I have piles of corn at the bottoms of several oak trees in the yard, and cobs and corn leaves all over the place.  If anyone is in southern MI and wants a place to hunt next fall, just let me know!!     At last count I think we had 947,000 squirrels!!  LOL!!     But seriously they are a pain in the butt...make that the back, from picking up their stuff.  I just hope the farmer plants alfalfa this summer!  Arch

[Rock Home Isle]

I need some ideas about how to discourage squirrels from attacking my vehicles.  

My garage is so full of other stuff that I have no room to park the cars (there's too many of them anyway) in there.  In all the years we've lived here, we've never had a problem with squirrels, but earlier this year a couple of them have apparently moved into one, or more of the trees.  There are quite a few cats around and they do a very good job of keeping other little creatures away, but they haven't been able to get these squirrels.

Shooting the squirrels is not an option.  What I'm most interested in is what can a person put under the hood to keep the squirrels out.  They haven't gotten to any of the rigs yet, but I'm afraid it's just a matter of time.  My sister and brother-in-law said that they have tried moth balls and dryer sheets (the little sheets you put in the dryer to keep clothes from wrinkling--I think) and even used cat litter.

I should digress just a little.  It seems that the squirrels around here are fond of chewing on wiring harnesses, stealing insulation and even moving into various cavities.

Any ideas?

My son has been having squirrels wipe out his 4H forestry project. I trap coon in the fall with box traps, so we gave it a try. We put a nice dent in the population that box trap baited with peanuts...took six of the longtailed rats in 1 week...2 of those in one day.